copyright the Chronicle April 11, 2018 BARTON — When Richard Labrecque got a notice saying a neighbor was claiming the use of a 200-foot-by-200-foot piece of his 200-acre farm in Barton he was perplexed. “How can this be?” he asked a reporter Monday. …To read ... More »
copyright the Chronicle April 11, 2018 After 31 years running an award-winning dairy farm, Deborah and Durwood Blay of Westfield have called it quits. They milked their cows for the last time on March 9, then tearfully watched them head up the driveway to thei... More »
copyright the Chronicle April 11, 2018 After 31 years running an award-winning dairy farm, Deborah and Durwood Blay of Westfield have called it quits. They milked their cows for the last time on March 9, then tearfully watched them head up the driveway to thei... More »
copyright the Chronicle April 11, 2018 GREENSBORO — Peter Schumann, founder and director of the Bread and Puppet Theater in Glover, has long proved himself adept at adapting his shows to the dimensions of any given performance space. He is less well known for ... More »
copyright the Chronicle April 11, 2018 BARTON — Bobbie Joe Roberts McManus has bought a long empty building in the center of Barton Village and plans to open Nick’s Snack Shack, hopefully by May 31. The move, she said, is partly fulfillment of a childhood drea... More »
copyright the Chronicle April 11, 2018 CRAFTSBURY — U.S. Representative Peter Welch stopped by Craftsbury during the morning of April 5 to check out a couple of projects financed by the Northern Border Regional Commission. One is to reinvent the old Craftsbur... More »
By Alan J. Keays, VTDigger.org Vermont judge has sided with the state in its bid to freeze the assets of Jay Peak developer Ariel Quiros, issuing an order Monday that applies to property in Vermont as well as outside the state and country. The order against Qu... More »
By Mike Faher, VTDigger.org After years of decline, Vermont’s adult smoking rate appears to have stalled and now “lags behind the nation,” advocates say. At the same time, state investment in tobacco-related programming is shrinking. A tobacco trust fund that ... More »
By Mike Faher, VTDigger.org For Vermont foster kids like Nate Farnham, simple activities that most take for granted – field trips, sleepovers and after-school hangouts – required social worker signatures and state background checks. “I never went to friends’ h... More »
By Anne Galloway, VTDigger.org Statewide candidates often launch campaigns in formal settings — businesses, hotel lobbies, fancy homes. And they attract the usual politicos: lobbyists, lawmakers, a full brace of media and well-heeled business types. Not so, ... More »
By Alan J. Keays and Colin Meyn, VTDigger.org Gov. Phil Scott says he would like to sign a package of gun bills all at once now that the last two have cleared the House and Senate. Together, the three pieces of gun legislation recently passed by the Legislatur... More »
By Mike Polhamus, VTDigger.org There are more cows in Vermont than the state’s agricultural land can accommodate under current practices, according to a new study from a UVM research fellow. But a promising solution to the problem would place a financial burde... More »
